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MDA, I knew I was getting laid. All I had to do was<br />
mention sex once and touch them anywhere, even<br />
their arm and they wanted more.”—Anonymous<br />
48-year-old resident of Indiana and subscriber to<br />
the DrugWar.com email list<br />
~<br />
“Personally, for my own sexual activities, I’m more<br />
of a mushroom person. I’ve never tried heroin or<br />
cocaine or even LSD, preferring mushrooms or<br />
perhaps a good tab of ecstasy.”—Velocity Chyaldd<br />
eventually shooting, cocaine, forget about it—sex was suddenly<br />
nothing more than a way for me to make more money<br />
to cop more cocaine and heroin. Forget about love and forget<br />
about pleasure.<br />
But this isn’t how it works for everyone. Some people thoroughly<br />
enjoy taking cocaine while having sex. Some folks<br />
have no problem with taking heroin and maintaining an erection<br />
all night and never catching a habit—or if they do, not<br />
letting it get in the way of their sex. Some folks love taking<br />
speed and screwing all night. It’s a case where “to each his/<br />
her own” rings true.<br />
Heroin, Cocaine, and<br />
Methamphetamines: The Powders<br />
“‘Dope Dick, an Ethnographic Examination’ or<br />
‘Faking the Big O: A Male’s Perspective.’ When I<br />
had girlfriends who I was hiding my dope hobby<br />
from, I got good at faking the O. ‘Honey, how<br />
come you always come so quick first thing in the<br />
morning?’ they’d ask. ‘I guess I’m just a morning<br />
person.’”—Steven Anker<br />
~<br />
“Cocaine, sniffing, is odd. It feels real nice, but can<br />
frustrate as full orgasm seems elusive. Smoking<br />
cocaine, the vibes are all wrong for sex, kinda<br />
creepy, really. Heroin, I’ve no desire for much more<br />
than noddin’ and chillin’, maybe a snuggle while<br />
I drift, with a place to rest my head.”—Sharon<br />
Secor<br />
~<br />
“Crack or freebase…. Sex is the only thing that<br />
gets my mind off of being paranoid when I do<br />
either. Makes me horny as a dog, but<br />
then I have trouble ‘getting it up’ so<br />
combine that with a prescription which<br />
helps me get it up (not Viagra, there<br />
are others I enjoy better), and voila! Whew! Take<br />
a hit at the same time I am coming and bam! The<br />
biggest best fucking physical and mental orgasms<br />
I’ve ever had in my life!”—Anonymous 48-year-old<br />
Indiana resident<br />
For this writer, heroin and cocaine both started out being extremely<br />
sexy drugs. I would shoot heroin with a lover, then<br />
make love all night, unable to come yet able to stay hard for<br />
hours. It was an awesomely beautiful experience each and<br />
every time—until I caught a habit. Then my use of heroin got<br />
in the way of sex and rapidly became much more important<br />
than sex ever was.<br />
Cocaine was very similar for me—when simply snorting the<br />
powder form, I felt like a god in bed and would find myself<br />
feeling especially kinky. But once I began smoking, then<br />
Cocaine (and speed) has been alleged by some researchers,<br />
not to mention anecdotally by many users, to release such a<br />
flood of dopamine in the brain that it blows away any release<br />
naturally occurring from orgasms, making sex seem somehow<br />
insignificant to the habitual user. “As a result of cocaine’s<br />
actions in the nucleus accumbens, there are increased impulses<br />
leaving the nucleus accumbens to activate the reward<br />
system, and with continued use of cocaine, the body relies<br />
on this drug to maintain rewarding feelings. The person is no<br />
longer able to feel the positive reinforcement or pleasurable<br />
feelings of natural rewards (food, water, sex).” 10<br />
While it is questionable as to whether this becomes an issue<br />
or problem with most recreational, part-time sniffers, from my<br />
own personal experiences and taking into account the numerous<br />
tales told by hardcore cocaine, heroin, and speed addicts<br />
I’ve known and loved, this lack of interest in sex amongst<br />
addicts is more often than not the rule rather than the exception.<br />
“As with cocaine, continued use of opiates [e.g., heroin]<br />
makes the body rely on the presence of the drug to maintain<br />
“If my date agreed to party with me<br />
on MDA, I knew I was getting laid.”<br />
rewarding feelings and other normal behaviors. The person is<br />
no longer able to feel the benefits of natural rewards (food,<br />
water, sex) and can’t function normally without the drug present.”<br />
11<br />
But as our anonymous Indiana resident above makes clear,<br />
there are exceptions to every rule, and cocaine and heroin<br />
have always been, and will continue to be, sex enhancers for<br />
many users.<br />
“I used to want to do coke and go out, but now<br />
when I do cocaine I just want to go home and spank<br />
the monkey.”—Anonymous male NYC burlesque<br />
performer<br />
~<br />
“I don’t recommend this to anyone trying to stay<br />
away from opiates, but, just the right amount<br />
SEX AND . . . DRUGS 113
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